Veg Manchurian (Recipe to Serve 2 people)

Ingredients

a) Vegetables Required

1. Onions- 2 Medium Sized
2. Green Chillies - 4 to 6 depending on the spice you want to have
3. Ginger - Finely Chopped- a teaspoonful
4. Garlic - 3-4 Pieces finely chopped
5. Coriander (Kothimeera)- for garnishing... amount varies according to your taste
6. Curry Leaves (Karivepaku)- 4-5 Remmalu (Stems, donno how else to measure!)
7. Carrot - 1 Medium Size
8. Cabbage-About 150-200 gms finely grated

b) Sauces and Other Chinese Items

1. Tomato Sauce -1 Teaspoon
2. Chilli Sauce - 1 Teaspoon
3. Dark Soya Sauce - 2 Teaspoons
4. Worcester Sauce - 2 Teaspoons
5. Schezwan Sauce- 2 Teaspoons(Its ok if its unavailable, but will be great if it is added)
6. Chilli Vinegar or Plain Vinegar if Chilli unavailable - 1 Teaspoon
7. Ajinomoto / China Salt - 1 Teaspoon

c) Other Ingredients

1. Oil
2. Salt
3. Chilli Powder- 1 Teaspoon
4. Gram Flour/Besan/Sanagapindi -200 gm
5. Corn Flour -3 Teaspoons
6. Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 Teaspoon
7. Garam Masala- 1 Teaspoon

Preparation

Stage 1

Grate one onion or grind it into paste. Grate the cabbage and carrot. Squeeze out the water from the grated carrot firmly without fail.Now mix them with Besan, Corn Flour, Ginger garlic paste, Chilli Powder, Garam Masala, Salt and water. Allow the mixture to stand still for 5-10 mins. Now make little balls of them and deep fry them in oil like pakoras till they are golden brown. Keep them aside.

Stage 2

In a bowl, mix all the sauces given above, ajinomoto, a teaspoon of salt and dilute with a little water.Make sure the ajinomoto and the salt are dissolved properly. Increase the amount of sauces used if you want more peppy manchurian. Now in a frying pan/tava heat some oil. First fry curry leaves/karivepaku, chopped ginger, garlic, onions and green chillies. Then pour the sauces into the frying pan and mix properly until the sauce becomes like a thick soup(this usually happens in one minute at max). Now add the pakoras that were fried earlier and keeping the stove's flame at maximum keep mixing them till the sauces are spread evenly. Switch off the stove and sprinkle a bit of black pepper, garnish with kotheemeera/coriander and serve hot! Enzaay Maadi! :)